I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.
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I had as well be killed running as die standing.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
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A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
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Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.
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You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
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